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parapet
It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman's manor-house, not a nobleman's seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look.
Leaving the homesick Americans at Tangku, I passed through Tientsin to Peiping, entering the crenelated battlements of the Tartar City on the last day of 1946.

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Open the tool →雉堞 (zhì dié) means “battlement, parapet”.
雉堞 is pronounced zhì dié in Mandarin Chinese.
“battlement” is 雉堞 (zhì dié) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 雉堞, each with pinyin and an English translation.